Catalonia starts DNA project to ID Spain war victims

Spain's Catalonia region said Wednesday it had launched the country's first public DNA profiling project to try to identify some of the 114,000 people who disappeared during the nation's civil war and subsequent dictatorship. The issue is hugely sensitive in Spain, where rights abuses during the 1936-1939 conflict and the ensuing 36-year dictatorship remain uninvestigated for fear of reviving once-bloody divisions, despite growing calls to heal still-open wounds. "This is a decisive step towards